{"id":343,"date":"2010-09-14T17:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T21:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/?p=343"},"modified":"2010-09-15T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T17:19:00","slug":"lee-solomon-the-bike-ride-that-changed-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/2010\/09\/lee-solomon-the-bike-ride-that-changed-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bike Accident Leads Lee Solomon to the Trauma Team That Saved His Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Solomon, a former state superior judge, county and federal prosecutor, county freeholder and state assemblyman, sustained life-threatening injuries from a biking injury near Lenape High School in Medford, New Jersey, on September 13, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>With two, separate injuries to his brain and a hip fracture, he spent the next three weeks in Cooper&#8217;s Trauma Center and then returned to Cooper recently for hip replacement surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a year later, he is back to his demanding career as President of the Board of Public Utilities for the state, and spending time with family \u2013 thankful for life. Here, he recounts the accident and shares his experience with Steven E. Ross, MD, and Tara N. Cassidy-Smith, MD.<\/p>\n<div id=\"video\"><script src=\"http:\/\/content.bitsontherun.com\/players\/Zaj1JYmw-Oru4m4KM.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Related Links<\/h3>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #999; padding: 10px; margin: 5px 0px 15px 0px; background: #f9f9f9;\"><strong>Tribute to Trauma:<\/strong> Lee Solomon, his family, friends and business associates from throughout New Jersey, including New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, gathered for a fundraiser at Cooper University Hospital exactly one year after a bike accident almost took his life. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/news\/2010\/09\/prominent-state-official-pays-tribute-to-cooper-trauma-for-saving-his-life\/\">View photos and more from the event by visiting the <em>Inside Cooper<\/em> blog.<\/a><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooperhealth.org\/content\/traumacenter.htm\">Level One Trauma Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooperhealth.org\/content\/emergency.htm\">Emergency Medicine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooperhealth.org\/content\/FindAPhysician.htm?mem_id=501\">Steven E. Ross, MD<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooperhealth.org\/content\/FindAPhysician.htm?mem_id=578\">Tara N. Cassidy-Smith, MD<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Solomon sustained life threatening injuries from a biking injury. With two, separate injuries to his brain and a hip fracture, he spent the next three weeks in Cooper&#8217;s Trauma Center and then returned to Cooper recently for hip replacement surgery. Now, a year later, he is back to his demanding career and spending time with family \u2013 thankful for life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[366,365,16],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-ddevenney","4":"has-excerpt","5":"has-more-link","6":"post-343","8":"format-standard","9":"category-videos2","10":"post_tag-brain-injury","11":"post_tag-hip-fracture","12":"post_tag-trauma"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}